Editor and Publisher of Booklist, Ott writes a column in each issue
called The Back Page. Here is a collection of about 80 of them, arranged
in sections on books and authors, genre fiction, life at Booklist, life
beyond books, and quizzes. Among specific topics are sharing Sputnik,
the Seabiscuit sweepstakes, violent novels in a violent world, strangers
in the night, best American fiction from the last 25 years, diagramming
sentences, catfight in the newsroom, libraries and librarians in the
movies, first firsts, and sex with dead presidents.

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